The Hidden Face keeps its central deception buried in plain sight, unfolding a Spanish-Colombian thriller where a journalist's search for answers turns dangerous.
What is The Hidden about?
Directed by Andrés Baiz, the film follows a young journalist pulled into investigating a death that officials have written off as an accident but that she suspects was staged. As she pieces together what really happened, the people closest to the case grow more determined to stop her, and the story tightens around the space between what is visible and what has been deliberately hidden from view. Set across Spain and Colombia, the production draws on both countries for its cast and its unsettling sense of place.
About the cast
Quim Gutiérrez and Martina García lead the cast, joined by Clara Lago, Alexandra Stewart, María Soledad Rodríguez, Marcela Mar, Humberto Dorado and Julio Pachón in supporting roles across the film's Spanish and Colombian settings.
Context & significance
The Hidden Face arrived in 2011 as a Spanish-Colombian co-production, part of a run of Latin American and Spanish-language thrillers built around tightly constructed premises rather than large budgets. Andrés Baiz, working across both countries' film industries, structures the film so that its central mystery is less about who did what than about how much a viewer is willing to trust their own eyes. The film builds its tension through architecture and sound design as much as through dialogue, using the physical layout of a single house to keep the audience guessing about who can see or hear whom at any given moment.
Watching The Hidden on Ktime
The Hidden Face is available to stream on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, and a free account login is all that is needed to watch. The page itself is free to browse for any visitor exploring K-Time's catalogue.